Well, my mom is single and we've both been single at the same time over the last ten years, so I really related to the bond between my character and Diane's.

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

Edvard Munch

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

Sidney Poitier

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-half our great theological and metaphysical problems-are like that.

C.S. Lewis

Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top.

Camille Anna Paglia

But we never get back our youth The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.

Oscar Wilde

I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.

Francis Ford Coppola

Be content not with your lot in life but with being here in the flow of life. The glories of creation are in your very cells; you are made of the same mindstuff as the angels, the stars, and god himself.

Deepak Chopra

... and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps without exactly knowing what it was to be satirical; but that did not signify. It was censure in common use, and easily given.

Jane Austen

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.According to: http://www.goethesociety.org/pages/quotescom.htmlthe lines are attributed to John Anster in a 'very free translation' of Faust from 1835See author: W. H. Murray

Johann von Goethe

And I felt closer to you. Because you knew me so much better than I'd realized - and still loved me.

Rosamund Lupton

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Alexander Pope